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Then the hate of white men for their Negro neighbors burst forth in a lynching bee seldom equaled for viciousness in the state. It began at the jail in Monroe (pop. 4,000), only 40 miles east of Atlanta. There Roger Malcolm, 27-year-old Negro farmhand, was in trouble. He had stabbed a white man. He had been locked up for ten days. The white man was still in the hospital...
Over and above the businessman at the "Bee" School, there is a small smart set who, doffing the green eye shade for a few brief hours, wield the quill for relaxation. The result is four pages of chatter and patter, in the entrepreneurial manner, labelled. The Harbus News, Get it-Har....bus? Well, these journalists didn't like the monicker any better than the next Better Business Bureau...
Then to the rendezvous came the queen bee. Dave's Dream's weaponeers, two 26-year-old ensigns, David L. Anderson and Leon D. Smith, had armed the bomb within 20 minutes after takeoff. Soaring at 30,000 feet above the polka-dotted lagoon, Dave's Dream made a dry run into the northeast wind. Bombardier Major Harold H. Wood-known to his crewmates as "Lemon Bar" because of his success at officers'-club slot machines-twirled the knobs on his bombsight, tried to line up the target ship Nevada with the cross hairs...
...Boys aren't good spellers because they aren't smart enough," volunteered twelve-year-old Contestant Nancy McDaniel last week. To prove it she pointed to her fellow finalists in the National Spelling Bee: 18 were girls, ten boys. But a few minutes later Nancy was out, for misspelling liar. About 400 words later, there were a boy and a girl left, each 13. The boy, shy and nervous, was John McKinney of Woodbine, Iowa (pop. 1,350); the girl, cool and confident, was Mary McCarthy of New York City...
Arnold Sigurd Kirkeby (rhymes with irk-a-bee), 44, breakfasted early at Manhattan's tony Hampshire House, which he owns. After breakfast he slowly smoked his way through two fat, black Rey Del Mundo cigars. Then he was ready for battle...